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North Dakota Launches HIE Boosted by High EHR Adoption Rates
Building on its status as having one of the highest electronic health record (EHR) adoption rates in the US, North Dakota recently announced the launch of its statewide health information exchange...
View ArticleHIEs are Becoming More Self Sustaining; Interoperability Problems Remain
This coming year, 2015, will be critical in the success of health information exchanges (HIEs), according to the report “Post HITECH: The Landscape of Health Information Exchange,” from the eHealth...
View ArticleAMIA: HIPAA Changes Needed to Permit Researcher Access to Patient Records
A leading healthcare informatics trade group wants Congress to amend HIPAA to allow researchers to gather data from patient records without permission from the patient. In a letter to Rep. Fred Upton...
View ArticleInadequate Patient ID Elements Hindering Health Information Exchange
In their rush implement electronic health records (EHRs), many healthcare systems gave little consideration to how patient identity elements were entered into new electronic systems. The lack of...
View ArticleONC and HHS Announce $28 Million for Interoperability, HIE Efforts
The federal government is investing $28 million in grant funding for state health information exchange programs in an effort to boost interoperability. In a blog post, Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc,...
View ArticleONC Takes Action: Health Information Systems Interoperability to Support...
By Anna Orlova and Diana Warner In the effort to advance secure and interoperable health information exchanges, the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for...
View ArticlePanel: HIM Should Be at the Center of Patient Engagement Efforts
Two sessions at AHIMA’s 2015 Leadership Symposium, held in Chicago, IL on Friday, underscored the important role health information management (HIM) professionals play in patient advocacy. In the...
View ArticleNew Study, Pilot Sites Part of AHIMA’s Expanding Information Governance...
When it comes to defining and launching information governance (IG) in healthcare, “we don’t have all the answers today,” said Deborah Green, MBA, RHIA, AHIMA’s executive vice president, chief...
View ArticleAHIMA Pledges Support for HHS Interoperability Plan
AHIMA is one of several health IT industry groups announcing its support for a new US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) initiative to improve the flow of health information between...
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CMS Official Offers Insight on Upcoming MACRA Changes
Robert Anthony speaking Monday at AHIMA’s Advocacy Leadership Symposium in Washington, DC. A new set of changes promises to transform the Medicare reimbursement landscape, and HIM has a role to play....
View ArticleHealth IT Offers Barriers, Solutions for Fighting Zika
The arrival of the Zika virus in the United States has caught local health departments and providers flat footed in terms of surveillance and detection thanks to outdated health IT systems. “One of the...
View ArticleCancer Moonshot Initiative Proposes National Cancer Data Sharing Network
A blue-ribbon panel of cancer research experts has called for the formation of a “national cancer data ecosystem” in order to help achieve President Obama’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative’s goal of...
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Officials Release Highly Anticipated Substance Abuse and Mental Health Final...
The long-awaited final rule concerning the exchange of mental health and substance abuse records was published January 18 in the Federal Register. The rule finalizes changes to Confidentiality of...
View ArticleSurvey: Patients Say Data Exchange Vital for Healthcare
Having the right health information at the right time in the right place has been the ideal goal for health information management (HIM) professionals for some time. It appears that the vast majority...
View ArticleONC Releases Draft Trusted Exchange Framework
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has released a draft of its long-awaited Trusted Exchange Framework, which aims to improve the interoperable exchange of health information...
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Proposed VA Rule Change Allows Release of Patient Records to HIEs Without...
The Veterans Administration (VA) has proposed changing a VA-specific patient privacy rule to allow the release of patient records to eligible community providers and health information exchanges (HIEs)...
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Trump’s Proposed Budget Seeks to Eliminate AHRQ, Slash OCR and ONC Funding
Major cuts to healthcare industry oversight agencies are suggested in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget proposal released by the Trump Administration this week. Included in the proposal is the total...
View ArticleTrump Administration Announces Initiative to Tackle Health Record...
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday announced several new Trump Administration initiatives aimed at tackling complex electronic health record (EHR)...
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CMS: Providers Should Get Rid of Fax Machines by 2020
Federal health officials announced their goal this week to eliminate fax machines from physician offices by 2020. In a speech Monday at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...
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Developers Release Electronic ROI Prototype Tool
AHIMA has contributed to the development of a new tool that helps simplify and streamline patients’ requests for their medical records. The Health Record Request Wizard prototype tool was released on...
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